ABSTRACT
The creative adoption and adaptation of mythology within feminism has influenced the emerging men's movements of the 1980s and 1990s. The mythopoetic men's movement, in particular, can be seen to have reworked existing feminist, female-centred, articulations of mythology in order to develop new, male-centred, ones. The idea of gender as a performance is influential in recent work by feminist geographers and has been developed in the context of social workplace relations as well as in the growing body of work about gender and sexuality. Mestizo is used both for men and to refer to the group, whereas Mestiza refers only to women. Within the racial hierarchies of Central and South America, Mestizos are seen as superior to indigenous people and Africans, but inferior to those of pure Spanish lineage. Much feminist research has sought to rediscover women writers and artists excluded from historical accounts, to uncover communities and networks of women modernists and to consider the distinctiveness of women's modernism.
